How do you organise your collection?
 

I'm having a re-organising session with my DVD collection. It's starting to outgrow it's storage cabinet so I'm ebaying some titles and replacing some collections with boxsets, etc.

So I was wondering, how do you organise your collections? Are they sorted by name, studio or director? Are they sorted under category such as zombie, vampire, etc. Do they have seperate sections for horror, scifi, etc? Or are they just thrown on the shelves haphazard?

Currently I keep my horror/scifi seperate from my drama and foreign language section. My top shelf is for prominent directors, such as argento, fulci, bava, rollins, romero, shyamalan (*duck*), etc. My next shelf will be for films I group together for other reasons, such as prominent studios (e.g. classic hammer, universal and amicus). Then the rest of my horror/scifi is sorted alphabetically.

I used to keep my horror and scifi seperate, but it gets a tad difficult to categorise certain films, so I gave up with that.

Mine are put into genres and then alphabitized.

At the moment, most of my DVDs are stored away, but still ave a few on some shelves all mixed up. In about a month I'll be moving to a new house and I'll have enough space to dedicate a room just for storing DVDs.

I've not decided on the order I'm going to display them, but will probably have to mix and match a few. Such as my Japanese Ultimate editions, Tartan Asia collection and I've got quite a few Korean & worldwide limited editions that I'll probably keep together.

The rest of my regular DVDs, I'll probably put them into categories.

Well, I initially tried to seperate them by genre when I moved in to my house last year, but since then they've gotten shuffled a bit and new ones I add just get put where there is room, so at the moment there's no organization to my collecton. Scream is sandwiched in between Star Wars and Caddyshack.

seperated by meduim (beta/vhs/laserdisc/dvd) and then by genre.

but i ran out of room for everything so now the genres are getting blended ..
I give up...

I keep my horror dvd seperate then alphabetically.

By smell, then colour

Someone seems to have a lot of time on their hands!

Don't bother organizing my films - whatever I pick up, I watch.
Now, as for books ......

I'm with this guy, that's how I do all of my collection, of course horror are my top 3 shelves :D . I also am putting titles on ebay to get some space as well. Soon my whole collection will be nothing but Horror, but my fiancee isn't going to like that to well she hates them :D

Mine are organized alphabetically according to DVDAficionado.

jesus ... alphabetization isnt even a consideration - just not possible.

i'm 'better' now but i was bringing home 20 - 30 DVDs a week for a while .. .and laserdiscs...

i actually filled my shelves - as of a few days ago i completely ran out of room and now have to employ the zwoti decimal system (put them in boxes and pray i remember where they are)

I was thinking about buying a DVD carrying case (like the cd ones), for space saver but then A lot of my dvds are collector editions and I really like the cases so I decided not to do it as of right now. The NEW TCM 2 disc I love that metal casing !

This site may be of some interest here. They've got some huge nice looking storage cabinets.

http://www.can-am.ca/cdvideo.htm

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/5...cabinetgf3.jpg

I usually alphabetize but I don't have that many DVDs. And it is a pain in the ass with all my CDs. When I have more I will probably sort by Genre then alphabetize.

Ouch, nice price to pay but they are some nice storage units.

I've not looked at the prices, only found the site a few days ago when searching for DVD storage ideas. They do free shipping for you guys, which I assume would be a big saving due to the size and weight of the things.

Deep discount do some really nice cabinets, ones that would look nice as pieces of furniture, and their not too expesive either.

http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/studi...ainStudioid=31

I started using CD carry cases too. I put my cheapo vanilla disks. It'd be nice to find some carry cases that will hold the inlay covers too, without folding them up.